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From: gdrew@tove.cs.umd.edu (Greg Drew)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: porting from VAX/VMS to unix
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Date: 8 Feb 91 18:52:19 GMT
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     I have just found myself responsible for porting the files about 25 users
from a VAX/VMS system to unix, does anyone have a good way to do this somewhat
painlessly?  Right now I am having to ftp the files one directory at a time -
since there are 25 users with 10 to 100 subdirectories each, and each 
subdirectory may have 200+ files, this takes forever!!!!  Any suggestions?
     If it will help, both the VAX and the unix machines have 1/2" tape drives,
but all the VAX can write (that is readable here) is tar, and some users
have filesystems bigger than 1 tape.
				THANKS!!!
				gdrew@tove.cs.umd.edu